Word: devour
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...freshman and sophomore nines went about seeking whom they might devour and devouring them handily, all during the autumn...
That fell destroyer the Columbia College Chess Club has challenged Bowdoin to a correspondence game. Insatiable the lion calls for another lamb to devour...
...reads this barrowing tale it will afford some satisfaction to learn that the guilty ones are to be dealt with according to their deserts. No penalty should be thought too severe - even to compelling them to devour the whole of their ill-gotten store. When the news of the outrage became known the freshman class promptly met and reported the matter to the faculty. They, on their part, have taken measures for expelling the offenders, who it appears have been guilty of other atrocities only rivalled in cruelty by the above described act. One freshman reports that he was recently...
There is one thing in which Columbia claims the championship. She has just beaten Yale in a chess tournament, and now she is roaming up and down like a hungry lion, seeking for some fresh victim to devour...
...screaming Tiger, going about seeking whom it may devour, has made its appearance in the college world, starting out from the savage jungles of Princeton to seek its fortune. Lampy and the Ibis have each donned a roomy pair of boots, and now employ all their leisure industriously quaking in those boots for dread of him. He growls, he snarls, he meweth dainty verses, he screams in ferocious farces, - but will he bite? And can he withstand the seductive charms of a Barnum? For how can one little Tiger, however fierce and frantic he be, make a menagerie...